WellSpan Health

WellSpan Health | July 22, 2016

Allentown, Pa. (July 22, 2016) - AllSpire Health Partners (AHP) today announced that Paul J. Tirjan, a seasoned and accomplished health care executive and entrepreneur, has been named the first president of the interstate consortium of health systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In his new role, Tirjan will provide strategic leadership, start-up expertise and operational project oversight for this partnership that comprises five leading systems in the Northeast....

WellSpan Health | July 18, 2016

The Lebanon School District announced today that WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital has provided the district with a “Healthy Students, Healthy Community” Grant, which will be used to support the district’s goal of providing additional nursing services to students at the Lebanon Middle School. “The district has many funding challenges, and we have been in need of more staff to provide support for our students in areas of instruction, administration and also in nursing,&rdqu...

WellSpan Health | July 18, 2016

WellSpan Health has been named one of "Health Care's Most Wired" by Hospitals and Health Networks (H&HN) magazine, highlighting WellSpan’s commitment to enhancing patient care through the effective use of information technology. Hospitals & Health Networks’ 18th Annual Health Care’s Most Wired® list names select hospitals and health systems based on its Most Wired Survey, which is viewed as a benchmarking study and a leading industry barometer measurin...

EHRIntelligence | January 16, 2020

Eighty-four percent of EHR users are dissatisfied with the technical service and basic software account support from current EHR and HIT vendors, according to a 2020 Black Book Research survey. Since the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, EHRs have not only been more prevalent, but they have continued to change and evolve. However, technical service from EHR vendors hasn’t kept up with the constant change, according to high-level hospital tech managers. Healthcare software support is ...